CHAPTER X.

THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. I. Modes of national Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid 325-335 Pride of Empire 325 Sense of national continuity 328 Patriotic Italian sentiment 330 Antagonism to other races 333 II. Influence of the Religious Idea of Rome on the 336-347 action of the poem Roman belief in the ‘Fortuna Urbis’ 336 Idea of ‘Fate’ in the Aeneid 337 Compared with the same idea in Tacitus 339 Origin and meaning of the Roman idea of Fate 340 Influence of this idea on the religious motives of the poem 341 Ethical aspect of religion in the Aeneid 344 III. Place assigned to Augustus in the Aeneid 347-354 Augustus the typical embodiment of Roman imperialism 347 Meaning given by Virgil to his relation to Aeneas 349 Imaginative and ethical value of the idea on which the 352 Aeneid is founded